The Big FEMA Lie, The Towers Had A Concrete Core: PROOF

Concerning the pictures of what may be rebar at ground zero, the bars seem to be a little too thick. All the steel rebar I've seen has been at most
an inch in diameter. This needs to be explored in more depth.ned out before this concrete core can be considered fact.

What i like about the photo in the sunset is how the pancake thoery doesnt stand up from the 9/11 (ommision. If in theory the floor above cause the
collapsing of the floor below when going down the core will still stand up as we clearly see in the photo, the skelet of the building will remain tall
in the air way above what we see when all the dust is down on the last photo (about 40/50 floor).

Right but instead the core was completely pulverized to dust in a pyroclasitic flow!

Originally posted by Zaphod58
From one page that I read, the WTC was 60/40 concrete to steel ratio, but with the WTC it was estimated to be 40/60 concrete to steel. So from what
they're saying there WAS concrete, but it was MUCH less than in previous and most high rise buildings.

The most noticeable change in the modern high-rise construction is a trend to using more steel and shaping lightweight steel into tubes, curves,
and angles to increase its load bearing capability. The WTC has tubular steel bearing walls, fluted corrugated steel flooring and bent bar steel truss
floor supports. To a modern high rise building designer steel framing is economical and concrete is a costly material. For a high-rise structural
frame: columns, girders, floors and walls, steel provides greater strength per pound than concrete. Concrete is heavy. Concrete creates excessive
weight in the structure of a building. Architects, designers , and builders all know if you remove concrete from a structure you have a building that
weights less. So if you create a lighter building you can use columns, girders and beams of smaller dimensions, or better yet you can use the same
size steel framing and build a taller structure. In News York City where space is limited you must build high. The trend over the past half-century is
to create lightweight high buildings. To do this you use thin steel bent bar truss construction instead of solid steel beams. To do this you use
hollow tube steel bearing walls, and curved sheet steel (corrugated) under floors. To do this you eliminate as much concrete from the structure as you
can and replace it with steel. Lightweight construction means economy. It means building more with less. If you reduce the structure’s mass you can
build cheaper and builder higher. Unfortunately unprotected steel warps, melts, sags and collapses when heated to normal fire temperatures about 1100
to 1200 degrees F.

The fire service believes there is a direct relation of fire resistance to mass of structure. The more mass the more fire resistance.
The best fire resistive building in America is a concrete structure. The structures that limit and confine fires best, and suffer fewer collapses are
reinforced concrete pre WWII buildings such as housing projects and older high rise buildings like the empire state building, The more concrete, the
more fire resistance; and the more concrete the less probability of total collapse. The evolution of high- rise construction can be seen, by comparing
the empire state building to the WTC. My estimate is the ratio of concrete to steel in the empire state building is 60/40. The ratio of concrete to
steel in the WTC is 40/60. The tallest building in the world, the Petronas Towers, in Kula Lumpur, Malaysia, is more like the concrete to steel ratio
of the empire state building than concrete to steel ratio of the WTC. Donald Trump in New York City has constructed the tallest reinforced concrete
high-rise residence building.

Originally posted by Christophera
I have worked in construction as a surveyor for 20 year, a welder for the last 30 years, and must analyse plans for structural steel and concrete
occasionally. I understood every word of the documentary and after 9-11 I looked for data on the towers and basically found nothing to jog my
memory, there was very little I recognized.

good, then maybe you can explain what you mean exactly in this claim:

Before another core tier could be formed, the elevator guide rails had to be lowered and set in place to a level 2 floors lower than the top of
the present concrete pour. They are what is shown in the diagram at the top of this page, the FEMA core. The guide rails are presented as multiple,
narrow rectangular tubes that supposedly ran full length for the tower.

Concerning the pictures of what may be rebar at ground zero, the bars seem to be a little too thick. All the steel rebar I've seen has been at most
an inch in diameter. This needs to be explored in more depth.ned out before this concrete core can be considered fact.

How come no-ones answering how you can tell the difference between the rebar from the floors and the alleged rebar from the core in the pictures of
ground zero?
I'm sure it's obivous, but I'd like to know so I can investigate further myself.

Originally posted by AgentSmith
How come no-ones answering how you can tell the difference between the rebar from the floors and the alleged rebar from the core in the pictures of
ground zero?
I'm sure it's obivous, but I'd like to know so I can investigate further myself.

Because as bsbray and anok clearly showed in the other thread....there was no rebar in the floors.

The pic you posted was from the basement.

The rebar there would have been burried in the massive amount of tonnage of pulverized concrete that we know it got burried in.

Originally posted by bsbray11

No, there was no rebar in the floor slabs.

The 4" floor slabs would need no vertical strength from rebar considering they were laying flat on the trusses (not to mention only 4 inches high),
which gave them all the support they needed and then some.

Any rebar would have been from concrete that was set vertically. An image of an original document appears to have been posted in another thread. Look
at it as an example. The only rebar provided was for upright concrete that needed it, as needed.

Btw, I have an 18-minute documentary saved on my computer on how the WTC Towers were constructed. The documentary leaves out specifics on the core,
but it shows workers laying down the floor slabs. If you'd like to watch them do it and see there's no rebar, only trusses underneath, maybe I can
find some way to send it to you. It's about 50mb though, so it might be a tricky send.

And a diagram of a truss/slab from FEMA:

No rebar in there.

Originally posted by ANOK
A still from the vid...Pouring the concrete floors. No rebar....

Originally posted by ANOK
Why would a 4" thick concrete floor need rebar?

It doesn't and wouldn't. When pouring floors you use a "wire mesh" to strengthen and prevent cracking. The only rebar in the floors would,
possibly, be to secure adjoining sections. i.e. last pour/next pour.

Depending on the type of construction, you May have short lengths of rebar insertion from the sides, which would be welded to the surrounding steel
structure, again, to help strengthen the "slab" and prevent shifting/cracking.

Originally posted by ANOK
Smith that is not one of the office floors now is it?

No your right it's not, it's one of the NIST labs, where they recreated the floor for tests.

How can it be burried in concrete as you say? You can see the metal floor base in that pic I posted. They are pouring the concrete directly on top of
it.

Can you? I can't it's so fuzzy you can barely make much out at all. But funnily enough if you imagine looking at the bloke in the NIST photo from
the opposite direction, you can see the wooden trowel they have going across and what's that mesh type stuff you can faintly see in the back of your
photo?

Why would a 4" thick concrete floor need rebar?

Apparantly as 12m8keall2c says it doesn't, I'm not a civil engineer and don't work with this stuff, so it's a type of wire. Looks similar to
what's in those other pictures still though and I'd love to know how anyone can distinguish between that and the wire.
How come some say there was none though? How did the concrete get it's strength then?

Corrugated, and typically galvanized, steel decking spot-welded to the joists. Wire mesh is layed upon the decking. While pouring the concrete you
"lift" the mesh, as you go, to ensure in is IN the concrete to enhance strength and prevent shifting/cracking.

The gauge of the wire mesh is much smaller (1/8" to 1/4") than the rebar used in vertical columns pours.

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